US Federal Acquisition Workstream
This workstream is focused on the specific challenges of Cloud acquisition in the US Federal government.
The Public Sector SIG supports FinOps practitioners who support public sector, federal, state, local, regional, tribal, military, and international government organizations and those working in institutions of higher education. The SIG focuses on specific challenges that these organizations face which differ from challenges faced by all FinOps practitioners.
These challenges may involve more restrictive funding processes, acquisition complexity, defining value of cloud spending without profit or revenue incentives, use of third parties or resellers, mandates and regulatory restrictions, organizational structure differences, and organizational complexity and age.
A general Public Sector SIG meeting is open to all who support governments regardless of their location or affiliation, on the first Monday of each month at 1pm US Eastern Time. If that Monday is a US or International Holiday the meeting is moved to the first Tuesday.
The FinOps Foundation supports Communities of Practice which are specific to a geographic regional community of FinOps practitioners. The community of practice for your geography is a place to meet with peers who share common challenges. We are happy to help support new Communities as interest grows. Current communities include US Federal, sponsored by the GSA, and Canadian Government, sponsored by SPAC/PSPC, the UK Government, US State and Local, and Higher Education. Please join the SIG if you are in one of these regions to be connected with that group.
If you are interested in hosting or speaking at a Public Sector SIG meeting or other FinOps event on government topics, please contact us at wgs@FinOps.org or post in the #sig-government channel of Slack.
